When they had broken a space big enough in the roof the four men let their friend down through the roof right in front of jesus.
Lowered down to jesus throuh roof bible.
Capernaum is also the location of the healing of the paralytic lowered by friends through the roof to reach jesus as reported in mark 2 1 12 and luke 5 17 26.
So they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd right in front of jesus.
The man is literally let down through the roof under the careful control of his concerned friends and into a situation controlled by the lord jesus christ.
As far as they were concerned jesus may not ever pass that way again and they wanted to make sure this paralytic man had to chance to see him.
So they tore a hole in this man s roof and lowered him down to jesus.
Then they lowered the man on his mat right down in front of jesus.
Berean literal bible and not having found what way they should bring him in on account of the crowd having gone up on the housetop they let him down with the mat through the tiles into the midst before jesus.
Weymouth bible when they could not come near to him for the crowd they removed the roof where he was.
Then they lowered their friend down into the house through the roof.
The account of the healing of the paralyzed man in mark 2 1 12 contains a number of lessons for growing christians.
They couldn t bring him to jesus because of the crowd so they dug a hole through the roof above his head.
When they couldn t get near jesus they decided to go to the flat roof.
Since they were unable to get to jesus through the crowd they uncovered the roof above him made an opening and lowered the paralytic on his mat.
How did the man s friends get him close to jesus.
But instead of giving healing the first thing jesus said was son thy sins be forgiven thee.
Other translations say made an opening removed part of the roof and uncovered the roof.
When jesus saw their faith he told the man that his sins were forgiven.
According to luke 7 1 10 and matthew 8 5 this is also the place where jesus healed the servant of a roman centurion who had asked for his help.
What two things did jesus do for the man.
1 forgave his sins 2 healed him so that he could walk.
Seeing their faith jesus said to the paralyzed man my child your sins are forgiven let s focus on the phrase dug a hole through the roof.
Webster s bible finding themselves unable however to bring him to jesus because of the crowd they untiled the roof just over his head and after clearing an opening they lowered the mat on which the paralytic was lying.